Translations

Hmm, sounds interesting. If you would be willing to (eventually) translate all the BnS comics, I could put them up on the site. Or just the wiki, if you're thinking of 'text-only' translations. Though if you (or someone else who is good with graphics and not necessarily a French speaker) could also edit the comic images accordingly (like those on the Italian BnS site), that would be even more awesome.

I would be happy to do that, I know some people who may help me. What's the name of the font you use ? But begining by translating on the wiki is a good thing, and it will permit to dicuss on the translations.

Not sure about the font. James seems to do most of the comics by handwriting. You can mail the guy who makes the Italian translations at santeilbandito@gmail.com and ask what he's using on his versions.

But you can probably start with the French translations right away, probably using the "Comic x/French" format. So the translation for Comic 1 would go on Comic 1/French, etc. As for the formatting, you could just copy-paste the transcription bit from the original comic's page source and replace the lines with their French equivalents. And probably put the new pages in Category:French or something. I could take care of that myself later.

Allright, TRANSLATOR'D! To translate a new comic, just type its number in the first box and hit 'Refresh'. Or just use the translate.php?comic=x URL format. I'll probably need to polish it a bit more afterwards, but it'd be good to have someone take it out for a test run ;)

It's also ready to have new languages added to it, all I need are some basic terms ("link", "title", etc), for which the French versions I already got from what you've done so far. Speaking of which, are the words for "date", "transcription" and "references" spelled the same in French or did some of them accidentally slip through when you made the pages? :P

The translator script was actually mainly just reworked from this, which I assume you haven't seen yet. Although that was made by me as well. PHP is a fun hobby ;)

And I fixed the accents problem, seems to be working fine now.

One thing, though... I'm still not sure about making duplicate French versions of all the characters' pages (and various other things that might eventually be Frenchified). A multi-lingual wiki would be cool, but we don't have too many French editors here. So you'd probably have to do the vast majority of all the extra French pages yourself, otherwise we'd end up with tons of red links :P It might also get a bit unorganised, but I suppose that's not too big a problem.

Upgrading

Bleargh. Tried to, but it wasn't pretty. Realised I needed to have command-line access to run php scripts that couldn't be run via the web. So then I upgraded anyway and all got messed up, and then I reverted to a backup.

It's currently running on 1.4.7. Lots of database changes with 1.5. I read the UPGRADE file, the official MediaWiki "1.4.7 to 1.5.2" upgrade tutorial and then some, but it was still rather messy. I'll probably try to do the db upgrade on my local machine, back it up and restore on BnS, or see if James has any details on accessing the command line.